Cracked.com Features Our Boy Jon Sarkin

6 People Who Gained Amazing Skills from Brain Injuries

At the age of 35, New Jersey man Jon Sarkin started to hear ringing in his ear. This was the type of ringing that, it turns out, could only be explained by overgrown blood vessels that require freaking brain surgery to fix.

Sarkin got his noggin cut open to fix the blood vessel, but later suffered a stroke and actually had to have part of his brain removed. All in all, it was almost the worst possible outcome for the surgery aside from death.

Via Vimeo.com
Or losing those awesome eyebrows.

Read more: 6 People Who Gained Amazing Skills from Brain Injuries | Cracked.com http://www.cracked.com/article_19504_6-people-who-gained-amazing-skills-from-brain-injuries_p2.html#ixzz1fHRDQ8eU

Here are some of the Sarkin interviews we’ve done at his old studio inside The Birdseye Plant-

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2 Responses to Cracked.com Features Our Boy Jon Sarkin

  1. Lois McNulty says:

    Jon’s story was featured on NPR’s This American Life this past weekend. You can hear it on the TAL website. http://www.thisamericanlife.org

  2. Pingback: Sarkin’s Resume | Sarkin

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